#Valentijn Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians - The Guardian

Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians The Guardian François Valentijn, a Dutch historian, wrote in the 1720s that “if there were no Chinese here, Batavia would be very dead”. And two decades later, that situation was almost realised. There is still considerable risk today facing Tionghoa society ... and more »

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